Dave Lens
Senior Software Engineer at Blimp
Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDave Lens is a Senior Software Engineer based in Flanders with 13 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing web applications—particularly webshops and booking systems. At Blimp since 2013 he focuses on test-first development, technical analysis, refactoring legacy codebases, and occasional DevOps work. He combines backend expertise with full-stack touches and has contributed significant refactoring to the open-source Fork CMS, steering it toward cleaner architecture by replacing container usage with Kernel object passing. Practical and pragmatic, he excels at untangling legacy systems and shipping maintainable solutions that lower long-term technical debt.
13 years of coding experience
Unfinished, Multimedia -en communicatietechnologie, Unfinished, Multimedia -en communicatietechnologie at HOWEST - Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
cms10
php10
backend10
back-end-development10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
front-end-development9
api8
doctrine8
apidoc8
neovim6
vi6
vim6
javascript6
mysql6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
forkcms/forkcms
Oct 2012 - Feb 2014
Fork is an easy to use open source CMS using Symfony Components.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 3 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on refactoring and modernizing the Fork CMS codebase. Their contributions involved removing unnecessary code, particularly related to environment configuration and namespace declarations. Furthermore, the user updated core components by passing the Kernel object instance to frontend and backend actions, including API calls. This effort resulted in a shift towards passing the Kernel object instance instead of the service container, and modifying the loading process.
cmsphpsymfony-bundleforkcmsfork-cms
davelens/dotfiles
Oct 2012 - Jan 2023
🏠 is where the ❤️ is.
Contributions:715 commits, 13 PRs, 548 pushes in 10 years 5 months
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